Family of Pascual Duarte

Family of Pascual Duarte

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Cela, Camilo Jose
Deep Vellum Publishing
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Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo Jos Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie.The Family of Pascual Duarte follows his upbringing in the poor Spanish province of Extremadura to his eventual imprisonmentand impending death sentence. Death permeates Duartes world: his fathers grotesque death to rabies, his young brothers drowning in an oil vat, and the loss of his children. But it is his wifes sudden death that condemns him to the darkest path when, losing all faith and driven by blind revenge, he kills her souteneur. Now an alien to the world around him, Pascual Duarte resigns himself to his bloodied fateyet never gives up his search for peace.Camilo Jos Cela has been recognized as one of the pioneers of Spanish literary realism, and his masterwork The Family of Pascual Duarte proves the power of his prose. The novel, which birthed the transgressive and groundbreaking tremendismo movement, roils with emotion and unflinching inhumanity, painting the Spanish countryside in bloodshed, eroticism, and an unshakeable feeling of grief. Blending the political with the personal with the philosophic, the result is an unparalleled exploration of the fraught relationship between man and society, and the pasts inescapable hold on the present.
EAN 9781628975307
ISBN 162897530X
Binding Ebook
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date November 14, 2023
Pages 166
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Cela, Camilo Jose
Translators Kerrigan, Anthony
Series Dalkey Archive Essentials
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